This volume, first published in French in 1936, extols the many joys and benefits of wine. Wine drinkers should take pleasure in Gaston Derys's quaint appreciation of the grape, and art lovers can admire Raoul Dufy's joyful watercolours. Reflecting the exuberance and lan of an earlier day, Derys takes us back to a time when the doctor's favoured prescription was an amiable glass of wine. In Derys's ode to wine, here translated into English, we discover that the medicinal and therapeutic uses of wine are many: it assists in fighting typhoid, infant sicknesses, and diabetes; it exerts a positive effect on one's character, beauty, and creativity; and it lends a fortifying power to athletes and soldiers. Supported by the comments of French doctors as well as Dufy's beautifully reproduced paintings, Derys's argument to raise a glass of wine becomes pleasantly irrefutable.
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"In the 1930s a group of leading French doctors set out to convince the rest of the world that wine was the best medicine you could have, and Benjamin Ivry's delightful translation of Mon Docteur le Vin is just what the doctor ordered. Paul Lukacs's introduction provides an essential historical context that reveals as much about the country as it does about wine itself." Donald and Petie Kladstrup, authors of Wine and War: The French, the Nazis, and the Battle for France's Greatest Treasure.
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At ten percent alcohol, a liter of wine contains 850 calories, or about a third of the daily requirement to maintain health and strength. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Etienne Nicolas, School of Medicine, Mon Docteur, Raoul Dufy, Doctor Dougnac, New York New!
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At ten percent alcohol, a liter of wine contains 850 calories, or about a third of the daily requirement to maintain health and strength. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Etienne Nicolas, School of Medicine, Mon Docteur, Raoul Dufy, Doctor Dougnac, New York New!
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Front Cover | Front Flap | Table of Contents | First Pages | Back Flap | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- Hugh Johnson's the Story of Wine by Hugh Johnson on page 8
- The Hollow Years: France in the 1930s by Eugen Joseph Weber on page 8
- The Flow of Art: Essays and Criticisms (Henry Mcbride Series in Modernism and Modernity) by Henry McBride in Back Matter
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